Panetta assures Afghans of full probe into video (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Thu, 01/12/2012 - 7:19pm

AP - Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses — an act that appears to violate international laws of warfare and further strains U.S.-Afghan relations.



 

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